darkenings

Down upon it all poured the amber light; dimmed in the distances by huge, drifting darkenings lurid as the flying mantles of the hurricane.

The Moon Pool 2004

And there were obscure flushes and darkenings too, as if a cuttlefish had suddenly suffused the air with purple; and the room had its passions and rages and envies and sorrows coming over it and clouding it, like a human being.

A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

The blind, the lame ... men afflicted with palsies, women stricken by barrenness ... and here and there, those whose hands and throats showed the first darkenings of the Slow Creep.

Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001

Hence that mourning, if one die, and darkenings of sorrows, that steeping of the heart in tears, all sweetness turned to bitterness; and upon the loss of life of the dying, the death of the living.

The Confessions 1999

Of all the changes and darkenings in Nina, her laugh has been least affected.

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

Of all the changes and darkenings in Nina, her laugh has been least affected.

Carrion Comfort Simmons, Dan 1989

He was not convinced that these sudden darkenings of her eyes and voice, and her flights from these moments into the first opportunity of gaiety, represented any real contest with pain.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Thou art still the God of our black fathers, and in Thy soul’s soul sit some soft darkenings of the evening, some shadowings of the velvet night.

A Litany of Atlanta by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 1922

Down upon it all poured the amber light; dimmed in the distances by huge, drifting darkenings lurid as the flying mantles of the hurricane.

The Moon Pool 1919

Thou art still the God of our black fathers and in Thy Soul's Soul sit some soft darkenings of the evening, some shadowings of the velvet night.

Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915